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Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers
kgamiel writes "The Obama campaign's CTO is hiring LAMP-biased geeks for the Boston office to help elect the Senator in the fall. This got me to wondering, what if he instead announced a SourceForge project toward the same end? What would such a project look like? Tools that both sides could use 'equally' would not achieve the desired end. And philosophically, could the Open Source community support one side in a competition such as this? What other issues does this raise?" Another reader notes that the Obama campaign is also searching for a security expert to plug the holes that allowed a hacker to redirect Obama's site (Linux/Apache hosted by GoDaddy) to Hillary Clinton's (Windows/IIS hosted by Rackspace).
I *really* think Hilary Clinton's should've been advised against being a female candidate, and hosting her site via 'Rack'space.. :-D
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Lead to a project which is probably incomplete, no documentation, and maybe a tarball that won't build.
-- Many men would appreciate a woman's mind more if they could fondle it
... his running mate will be Al Gore.
for any political campaign would be pretty hard to keep track of. Subversion, anybody?
Which means Bush W.==Windows XP, Bill Clintion==Mac OS9, and Bush Snr==Win98/96.
Already tells you something about the candidates, doesn't it?
John who?
So, how many LAMP developpers does it take to change a light bulb?
No historical evidence? But what about the Bible?
I kid, I kid...
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
/that is all
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Did you forget that after he got his diploma he spent some years as a community organizer? That clearly jives with his speech.
I must've missed the part where he specified how long one should do community service and at what precise point one should cash in.
$Candidate: So what kind of people do we need on the technology side?
$SeniorTechAdvisor: Open source, Windows, Mac OS/X, Linux, etc. We're platform neutral.
$Candidate: As long as we have someone on the team with DIEBOLD experience, I'm satisfied.
If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;
Give it to Hans Reiser.
Or did you actually mean runing? Perhaps you have "verbed" the noun "rune", in which case I expect that someone should explain to you that politics doesn't work like Diablo II, and you can't add runes to objects to make them more effective in real life.
Thanks in avdance for the clarification, it will help me understand your point much more clearly.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
yes we can!
Obama -> GoDaddy
Clinton - Rackspace
Am I the only one who's laughing his ass off at this?
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
Say bad words about my book, in cold oatmeal, or I shall sue!
"This got me to wondering, what if he announced a sourceforge project?" Dude, get a goddamned LIFE! Gee, what if he started hacking the linux kernel, wouldnt that be totally cool? God damn it.
So coveting your neighbor's ass carried the death penalty?
Forget about that. We are the same, you and I. Hope.
// MD_Update(&m,buf,j);
I think that falls under the Dilbert principle of becoming irreplaceable; if he were actually good at being a senator then we'd want to keep him there. Since he's not, he should be allowed to fail upward, just the same as anyone else =)